Affirmations of Life

I guess something good that is happening today is that I get to drive my dad's car. My dad owns a Convertible 2004 Audi TT. My dad is in Oklahoma for a business trip. It is a lot of fun to drive the Audi. I got to drive it today and until my dad gets back from his trip. It is just the funniest thing when I drive that car to school and people give me the dirtiest look or the "What the crap!" look. When I drive the Audi I just feel a lot more confident in myself and I get this feeling that I can take on whatever happens that day. 

The Truth about Nature

I have had several connections to nature, mostly when i was very young. When I lived in Wheeling, IL there were baby birds on the ground and we could not find a nest nearby. My mom raised the birds in our house for a while so other animals could not eat them. I thought the little birds were really cool. After time the birds began to jump around a lot in the house. My mom then fastened a basket to a high branch in our tree. The birds would actually sleep in the basket and hangout in the tree. And my mom every now and then would come by and feed the birds.  We actually fed the bids dog food soaked in milk. The birds really had a connection to my mom. As the birds greww older they didn't hang around the basket that often and started to sleep somewhere else. The coolest thing was that the birds would come back to the tree for their meal. They would eat it out of my mom's hand. My mom always has an amazing way with animals. Another animal experiance for happened last summer. I was biking and saw a rabbit in the ally just sitting there. I came up to it and it tried to hop, but couldn't. I picked the rabbit up and it's left part of the head had a bandaid on it and under the bandaid the head was covered in fly eggs and larva and was all bloody and it had a broken left leg. I'm pretty sure the my neighbors kid shot it with a bb gun. I took the rabbit home took cleaned up the maggots and used hydrogen peroxide to clean the wound. And My mom and I made a cast for the leg. I kept the rabbit in a box and just watched it. After a while it started moving more as if it wasn't stunned anymore. the rabbit jumped high into a window and banged it's head. It was laying on the ground the cast came off and he broke his leg even more a bone was sticking out. The worst part was brain matter was coming out of his head. I took the rabbit outside and held the rabbit and then the rabbit turned stiff. The rabbit i tried really hard to save died in my hands. That experiance made the next three days pretty upsetting. I've always felt like i'm really connected to nature, but mostly animals.

Team Edgar or Team Nathaniel?

I did not enjoy the writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne. To me all his puritan writings were all repetitve and more annoying than 100 nine-year olds. Hawthorne's writings didn't have enough exciting fun in them. Edgar's writings were pretty cool. They all had a dark void in them that was enjoyable though. I remember seeing plays on Edgar's writings and they were really fun to watch! And also the Simpsons did a spoof on Edgar's The Raven which i liked.

Romantic Poem Reflection

The poem "Old Ironsides" was one romantic poem I enjoyed. To others it seemed to be just a boat, but with his talent in writing this poem Wendell Holmes was able to convince people that it was more than just a boat. Holmes showed me in a way that it's important to fight for whatever you believe in. Which is one of the most important things to me.

Connection to Nature

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What Were You Thinking Edgar?

I find myself falling through this pit. my head still dizzy I see flashes of light all around me i see volcanoes strange structures as I fall. That was the last thing I remember before i woke up here. I don't know where I am. This forest smells of death, the feel of pure evil is everywhere. I stand up and start to recollect my thoughts. I start walking forward with no sense in direction at all, no paths at all. I just start walking. Ahead of me looks as if the forest is blanketed in snow, i begin to walk faster to see this strange sight. I come to the strange sight. This is not snow, it's spider webs, all over the forest floor and going up the trees. There must be billions of spiders here. The small little bugs must of spent forever making a whole city of webs. The sound of strange running came from behind me. I quickly turn around and nothing. I yell who goes there! no response I hear the sound again. I quickly look again nothing. The sound seems to be coming from everywhere. I keep yelling, but no response. I start to run from the way I came. I look behind me and a giant spider comes from the side of a tree and starts to come towards me. I run as fast as i can through this dark forest. Suddenly I hit the ground with my face. I had tripped on the root of a tree protruding out from the ground. I turn to my back and the massive spider stands over me about to devour me. Just then a man comes charging at the spider holding a glowing necklace of some sort. He's screaming back back you foul beast! The spider swings me away  with one of its legs. Now i am dazed and confused, not knowing what is going on the man picks me up and asks if I'm okay. The only thing I say is where am I? He says "you're in Mirkwood." Mirkwood? Where is this I think to myself? Somewhere in England maybe? The man tells me we are in the realm of Dol Guldur. So far from all this mishap I truly say I miss my mommy.

Reflections on The Crucible

The Crucible was a very good story that made me want to think what life was like back then. When the characters were blaming each other one after another it felt like high school or people in general. People always blame each other. The story just felt like chaos in there. One character i did not enjoy was Reverend Parris. Parris was a jerk and such. He was power hungry throughout the whole story. He liked the attention he was getting when people came to him, he felt he was in control. And Parris is greedy Proctor even calls him out for being greedy. Parris really thought he was the greatest thing since sliced bread, but actually sliced bread had not been invented untill 1928.